1. SELECTED PIECES

    The Completist (Slate)
    I read everything Janet Malcolm ever published 

    Interview with Renata Adler (The Believer)
    “I never attacked anyone weak.” 

    Does Anyone Here Speak Art and Tech? (New York Times)
    Art and technology: a clash of cultures

    The Nonblond Leading the Blond (New York Times)
    A Swedish hair salon on the Upper East Side 

    On the Market (n+1
    My year working at Sotheby’s

    Sad as Hell (n+1)
    Internet anxiety as brain disease

    New Impressions (The Poetry Foundation)
    Raymond Roussel’s perfect brand of insanity

    Mary Oliver and the Nature-esque (The Poetry Foundation)
    Why the best-selling poet is a best-selling poet

    Size Once Mattered (New York)
    The surprisingly fun history of newspaper trim sizes 

    Trouser Math (New York)
    The economics of skinny jeans

    The Westway Way (New York)
    An ironic hipster stripclub comes to NYC

    Peetie the Parakeet, Art-World Darling (New York)
    After hours pet care at the Whitney

    Working Glass (Tablet)
    The unartfulness of propaganda 

    Counterlife (Tablet)
    On my adolescent Jew-envy

    It’s a helluva town (Prospero)
    The discrete genre of the New York memoirs